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The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

Publication date: 2019-04-01

Topics: MySpace, Music, 2000s, Tom, Music, MP3, academic, loss

To Search Through and Play Items From This Collection:

Please click here to use Hobbit, the search and playing mechanism for the Dragon Hoard.

PLEASE NOTE IT WILL TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO INITIALIZE THE INDEX WHEN YOU FIRST LOAD IT.

Summary Description:

A wide-ranging collection of 490,000 mp3 files from MySpace.com, accomplished using unknown means by an anonymous academic study conducted between 2008 and 2010. These files are arranged by the filenames assigned by MySpace's Content Delivery Network, the key of which is in the metadata.tsv file in this collection. MD5 and SHA hashes are also provided from the original project, and included in the main directory.

Nearly every file in this item is no longer hosted at MySpace, due to a suspicious and low-key deletion/loss of data in 2018.

There is no other information about the origin of this collection at this time.

Accessing the Collection:

At over 1.3 terabytes of mp3 files named by the Content Delivery Network of Myspace, this collection can best be described as unwieldy. Therefore, it has been left as a set of 144 .ZIP files (created by the Info-ZIP program) that can be browsed and viewed by using the "view content" links in the general item directory.

Addeddate: 2019-04-01 18:42:59

Identifier: myspace_dragon_hoard_2010

Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 1.8.1

Year: 2019

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Reviewer: grimmfairytales - - October 18, 2020
Subject: Help...

Noob here.
I am doing this through mobile which is already a poor decision on my part, sadly currently I do own a pc/laptop.
I believe I'm going about the navigation wrong?
It seems from other comments it does work, however it is slow.

How should I go about diving in this archive?
Is there a way to speed up loading process?
Should I keep it to one word minimum in the search bar?

Any and all tips will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance :)

Reviewer: wardrich - - July 7, 2020
Subject: Great idea, but holy does it suck to search

There seems to be a pretty solid archive of tunes, but it seems like the search function works as you type instead of when you hit enter... and it's SUPER slow to update. Can this be changed to allow you to enter the band/song you want and then hit [enter] to initiate the query?

Reviewer: guruu - - May 17, 2020
Subject: Old Band Tracks

@mirachu!

How did the script go? Would love to know if you have any of my bands old songs from that era. Would you mind searching?

Man The Lifeboats
Tonight We Fire

Are the names.

Not sure how else to get in touch with you but hope you do see this message soon.

Peace

Reviewer: mirachu - - May 3, 2020
Subject: Tons of music

1.3 TB unpacked, 479k files... If you want to map the metadata to files it'll take a bit of scripting and a lot of time. Well, a few days. I've been running a script that goes through the metadata, writes ID3 tags into files, and renames the hashed names to artist--trackname.mp3. It's now two days in and I'm roughly at 70%, so it's done maybe tomorrow.

ANYWAY, an interesting stash, will probably never listen to all of it but hey, disk is cheap. Most of the music seems to be digitized at 22050 Hz, so no clean highs for anyone. I suppose 96 kbps isn't much of a limitation considering the sample rate.

Reviewer: TheMyspaceArchiveProject - - January 24, 2020
Subject: Wonderful!

This is an excellent start to archiving old Myspace music that is no longer accessible.

I'm using this, as well as music from my own searches and purchases over the years, to archive the metal, emo, and alternative style music that took off using Myspace as a platform.

You can find that ongoing project here:
Archive.org/details/MyspaceScene

Reviewer: thegreatmoonhound - - December 19, 2019
Subject: Uhhhh

I lost some tracks, and have been viewing page source of my old page, trying to figure out how the hell to decipher the snippet of hex value that is used in this catalogue... Help...

As for the reviewing aspect: Phenomenal work. Wish the Hobbit player was still functional. though it IS 2019 and the computer I am using is....embarrassing. And I'm even sugar coating it.

Reviewer: kyledrake - - April 11, 2019
Subject: More Artist Metadata Here

https://archive.org/details/myspace_artist_data_dump_2009

Reviewer: SteveMacintyre - - April 8, 2019
Subject: I heartily approve of this hoard

It's high time we had some dragon hoards archived here.

Reviewer: imvedere - - April 4, 2019
Subject: Not the hero we need but the hero we deserve!

I've loaded the torrent and will seed for as long as I could.

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